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A Social-linguistic Study On Address Terms Of Social Identities-Based On The Analysis Of The Corpus Of Chinese Address Terms Abstracted By The Means Of "Keyboard Entry"

Posted on:2018-08-31Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Z J JinFull Text:PDF
GTID:1315330515951404Subject:Linguistics and Applied Linguistics
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This paper is not only a research on social language based both on social development and on language change,but also an experimental finding based on new media technology and an analysis based on mass data.In our moden society,an explosive development of people's social identification words such as????in a traditional sense and????????in a modem sense has boast an exclusive lingual phenomenon in the life of modem Chinese language.This phenomenon has caused an increasing focus of Chinese academic researches,and also has raised more serious questions for Chinese academic researchers of linguistics.Question one:any research must be identified in an effective way,while our existing researches on address terms of Chinese social identities has not reached this goal.The existing researches have used terms as???or???to identify Chinese people's social identity,however we have not known which term is more accurate than the other,even not known whether there exists other terms to do the identification job.We consider that social language study relates not only linguistic studies but also social studies.This gives us a thinking of how to create a term which can relate our linguistic study with social studies such as the issue of 'identity recognition',tihe issue of 'social identity',the issue of'identity strain',etc.Question two:any research cannot abandon the analysis of relative data.The existing researches on address terms of Chinese social identities have usually used some incomplete data to finish their findings,not mention some so called systematic researches such as those on?????,they just used the limit complete data only from the book itself to gain their findings.The existing researches have also used some static data such as some certain corpuses to finish their findings,and those static data usually come from researchers' books-reading and their selecting from the book sentences.This reminds us the possibility of whether we can do our research using mass and dynamic data to gain our new finds,and these data could be directly acquired in a certain experimental method which could not rely on sentences,paragraphs,even dictionaries.Question three:language change is not only a result of the internal development of social language,but also some representation of social development.The existing researches usually pay attention to the contribution which the address terms brought to the Chinese lexicology and pragmatics.This reminds us the possibility of whether we can establish a representation model of immediate social status or questionnaire of social problems with the help of statistics and analysis of language data.We focus on answering these questions in this paper.Firstly,we reconsidered the concepts of??and??hich had been used by previous relative researches on Chinese address terms and then proposed the concept of????(Address Term of Social Identity,Abbr.Address Term)which could contain completely the language phenomenon representing by??and??.As the most important communication tool,human language mainly has functions of reference,declaration and describing.In social communication,people are firstly referred to 'who am I?','who are you?' and 'who is he/she?',what we call????(Address Term of Social Identity)is exactly the reference of people's social identities expressed in a lexical form in human language.This reference expresses the explanation and construction of people's social experience,social position and social value in a cultural context.This reference is also an important form of people's social language life and an important representation of social change.Secondly,we made an experimental design for the first time aiming to collect????(Address Term of Social Identity)by means of keyboard entry.The number of Chinese internet users has reached 710 million[CNNIC(China'sInternet Information Center)2016 data].'SouGou keyboard entry' is one of the most used keyboard entries in China.This keyboard entry,like some others,will automatically update the words preferential association according to the national internet users' words entry.In this sense,we may survey the universally used forms and contents of Chinese address terms of social identity through this 'Sougou keyboard entry'.We may also track the survey to establish a corpus of complete data of????(Address Term of Social Identity)based on the above mentioned dynamic data base.In this paper,we have collected 13292 Chinese address terms of social identity for the first time,which becomes the biggest ever data base of the Chinese address terms(representing Address Terms of Social Identity in the follow paragraphs)we could find.In this data base,there are 6528 Bi-syllabic and 6764 Tri-syllabic Chinese address terms.This large data base indicates the diversity and complexity of social recognition and social identity in modern Chinese society.In this research,we have found more than 500 'Word Mode' in the data base of Chinese address terms with the help of 'Core Word' finding.We do so in order to make people how big amount the 'Word Mode' of Chinese address terms existing in human language,and to make people know this big amount of the 'Word Mode' of Chinese address terms could foresee the expansion of the amount of Chinese address terms of identity in the future.In this paper,we have found that Chinese Address Terms has a strong ability of reproduction,and the dominating part of neutral color nominal form of Address Terms indicates Chinese people's neutral social performance is taking the major role in China's society compared with the minor positive and negative social performance.Through the comparison of time dimensional change of Address Terms,we have not only observed the dynamic change of the Address Terms(the annual change rate is about 20%),but also observed the timesocial careers,social psychology and social focus which are reflected by the Address Terms.We finally analyzed the Address Terms in the dimensions of social rights and wealth in China,sex and gender issues in China,ethnic and ethnic groups in China,finding that the ralavant Address Terms reflect the imbalance of the distribution of Chinese social wealth,social power and social reputation among the Chinese people.Besides,we have also found that China's society presents a masculine characteristic,and the social problems of poverty-wealth gap,the conflicts between part of governmental officials and common people,the conflicts between part of police and common people can be observed from the ralavant masculine Address Terms,and the women's showing-off,speculation and capricious characteristics can be observed from the ralavant feminine Address Terms.More than that,we have found that some Address Terms about ethnic groups reflect the inner and outer layers of Chinese ethnic groups,and the two-way ethnic discrimination is the result of the event driven social force impacting on the society;while some Address Terms about ethinic groups reflect the different social layers between part of social power owners and the common people,part of the social wealth owners and the common internet users,part of the illegal social benefits gainers and common social benefits owners.Obviously,those questions raised above are in the changing state.However,the changing of 'word corpus' which is constructed by Chinese internet users may provide a linguistic research model in order to establish a sociology scale of the'anxiety of social identity and social confrontation'.
Keywords/Search Tags:Address Term of Social Identity, Keyboard Entry, Full Data, Word Mode, Social Indications
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